A JAPANESE YEW WOOD NETSUKE OF A FROG BY MATSUDA SUKENAGA (1810-71)

A JAPANESE YEW WOOD NETSUKE OF A FROG BY MATSUDA SUKENAGA (1810-71)
EDO/MEIJI, 19TH CENTURY

The amphibian depicted crawling on a pumpkin stalk, naturalistically carved with the texture of its skin rendered in detail and the eyes inlaid in glass, the reverse signed Sukenaga, 4.8cm.

Cf. N Davey, Netsuke, p.236, no.729 for a similar example. Also, see Bonhams London, the Harriet Szechenyi Sale of Japanese Art, 8th November 2011, lot 212, for another closely related netsuke of a frog on a stalk by Sukenaga.